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Sonic Life: A Memoir

Thurston Moore

A Sunday Times, Telegraph and Irish Times Book of the Year.

£12.99
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571373970
Date Published
12.09.2024
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Summary

The Sonic Youth frontman takes us from a 1960s childhood rock ’n’ roll epiphany, through the subversive world of 1970s punk blasting forth from New York City, to traversing the globe with a band who changed the sound of modern alternative rock music and opened the minds of a generation of artists.

Critic Reviews

Sonic Life will be every alt-rocker's binge-read this winter.

Andrew Perry, Mojo
Critic Reviews

Moore is an articulate guide and - above all - a knowledgeable superfan of avant-rock. His writing about music is exemplary throughout.

Jeremy Allen, Record Collector
Critic Reviews

A love letter to to the New York underground music and art scenes of the 1970s and 80s...Moore's prose suggests he could have had an alternative career as one of the few great music journalists to have become a household name.

JJ Moores, The Wire
Critic Reviews

Were you there? Well this is as close as it gets! Thurston Moore's compelling and spirited account of the streets, the songs, the clothes, the clubs and the contenders! A sensitive and authentic testimony to Moore's life lived through art and music. Beats with the heart of a true artist and mutineer.

Viv Albertine
Critic Reviews

Downtown scientists rejoice! For Thurston Moore has unearthed the missing links, the sacred texts, the forgotten stories, and the secret maps of the lost golden age. This is history-scuffed, slightly bent, plenty noisy, and indispensable.

Colson Whitehead
Critic Reviews

Moore is an unabashed nerdy enthusiast.

Guardian
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Thurston Moore is a founding member of Sonic Youth, a band born in New York in 1981 that spent thirty years at the vanguard of alternative rock, influencing and inspiring such acts as Nirvana, Pavement, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, My Bloody Valentine, and Beck. The band’s album ‘Daydream Nation’ was chosen by the Library of Congress for historical preservation in…

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